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Some of you may have heard about Auriele Diotte and her challenge to her class to write letters to our troops. From that small step, a large idea was born.
Auriele's father, a wonderful religious man, has gone through his churches and congrgations around the country are taking pictures of themselves waving to our troops. They do this to show our men and women in the sandbox just how many people back home are supporting them.
Most of you know that I am an educator and I was so impressed by this story that I contacted Auriele's family. All of them are truly amazing people and I feel honoured to have been a part of their life and to have spoken to their daughter.
I wanted to know how I could help. I wanted to know how I could use all of th staff here to get something going. I asked the staff to find out the email address for every school board in an assigned province. Sometimes this was difficult, so today I used their information and I contacted every ministry of education across our entire country to get emails. Some provinces jumped at the chance to help out, others are making me jump through hoops.
Anyhow, I have now emailed 156 school boards across the country and i still have two provinces and 2 territories to complete.
I will attach a copy of the letter I sent to each school board. I am hoping that every school board will be on board with this. if so, imagine if each school board has 30 schools, that's 4500 schools. Imagine if each school has 300 students and 1/2 of them do it. That's almost 700 000 letters for our troops!
Won't that be amazing!
_____________________________________
Angeie *****
Public Affairs Representative –MCF
(204) ***-****
angeie@marriedtothecandianforces.com
on behalf of
www.cafeday.ca
To whom it may concern,
My name is Angeie and I am a military spouse and an educator. I would like to invite you to join schools and school boards as well as other institutions across Canada taking part in a letter writing campaign to show our support for our Canadian Armed Forces members serving in OP ARCHER in Khandahar, Afghanistan.
Auriele Diotte, a wonderful 14 year-old girl from Pickering recently challenged her class to write a letter showing their support for our troops. Her idea blossomed and was picked up by local and national newspapers around the country and the once small idea has grown into a nation wide campaign. Auriele will also be addressing Parliament to motion that we put forth a National Day of Recognition for our soldiers. Auriele is supported by many Members of Parliament across Canada. Her website is listed below.
As the Public Affairs Representative for the largest military support site for Canadian families and as an educator, I felt very strongly to get behind this young woman and do what I could do for this movement. The hundreds of families that I speak to on a daily basis have continually expressed what a difference a letter from a child would make that shows that they support our troops.
In this day, every time we turn on the news, we seem to lose yet another member of our military family. That’s one more family without a loved one, one more child without a parent, a child like each one in your district. For our soldiers to see that the people of our nation stand behind our troops and the sacrifices that they make and those of their families, the boost in morale would be insurmountable.
In order to make this as easy as possible, I have written a generic lesson plan and provided a variety of ways in which the lesson can be implemented. The time factor is a little as 30 minutes. In discussion with CFPSA and DND, all letters collected will be delivered to our soldiers from a central mail centre in Belleville, Ontario. We ask that the individual schools return the letters to you through interschool mail and that the boards send one large package of letters each to:
ANY CF MEMBER
OP ARCHER
PO BOX 5058 STN FORCES
BELLEVILLE, ON
K8N 5W6
Many national newspapers as well as television stations have expressed great interest in covering the arrival off letters in Khandahar. This will likely be televised on the national News and I am sure that your students would be delighted to watch the program.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at:
Angeie *****
(204) ***-****
angeie@marriedtothecanadianforces.com
or visit Auriele’s website at www.cafeday.ca
Auriele's father, a wonderful religious man, has gone through his churches and congrgations around the country are taking pictures of themselves waving to our troops. They do this to show our men and women in the sandbox just how many people back home are supporting them.
Most of you know that I am an educator and I was so impressed by this story that I contacted Auriele's family. All of them are truly amazing people and I feel honoured to have been a part of their life and to have spoken to their daughter.
I wanted to know how I could help. I wanted to know how I could use all of th staff here to get something going. I asked the staff to find out the email address for every school board in an assigned province. Sometimes this was difficult, so today I used their information and I contacted every ministry of education across our entire country to get emails. Some provinces jumped at the chance to help out, others are making me jump through hoops.
Anyhow, I have now emailed 156 school boards across the country and i still have two provinces and 2 territories to complete.
I will attach a copy of the letter I sent to each school board. I am hoping that every school board will be on board with this. if so, imagine if each school board has 30 schools, that's 4500 schools. Imagine if each school has 300 students and 1/2 of them do it. That's almost 700 000 letters for our troops!
Won't that be amazing!
_____________________________________
Angeie *****
Public Affairs Representative –MCF
(204) ***-****
angeie@marriedtothecandianforces.com
on behalf of
www.cafeday.ca
To whom it may concern,
My name is Angeie and I am a military spouse and an educator. I would like to invite you to join schools and school boards as well as other institutions across Canada taking part in a letter writing campaign to show our support for our Canadian Armed Forces members serving in OP ARCHER in Khandahar, Afghanistan.
Auriele Diotte, a wonderful 14 year-old girl from Pickering recently challenged her class to write a letter showing their support for our troops. Her idea blossomed and was picked up by local and national newspapers around the country and the once small idea has grown into a nation wide campaign. Auriele will also be addressing Parliament to motion that we put forth a National Day of Recognition for our soldiers. Auriele is supported by many Members of Parliament across Canada. Her website is listed below.
As the Public Affairs Representative for the largest military support site for Canadian families and as an educator, I felt very strongly to get behind this young woman and do what I could do for this movement. The hundreds of families that I speak to on a daily basis have continually expressed what a difference a letter from a child would make that shows that they support our troops.
In this day, every time we turn on the news, we seem to lose yet another member of our military family. That’s one more family without a loved one, one more child without a parent, a child like each one in your district. For our soldiers to see that the people of our nation stand behind our troops and the sacrifices that they make and those of their families, the boost in morale would be insurmountable.
In order to make this as easy as possible, I have written a generic lesson plan and provided a variety of ways in which the lesson can be implemented. The time factor is a little as 30 minutes. In discussion with CFPSA and DND, all letters collected will be delivered to our soldiers from a central mail centre in Belleville, Ontario. We ask that the individual schools return the letters to you through interschool mail and that the boards send one large package of letters each to:
ANY CF MEMBER
OP ARCHER
PO BOX 5058 STN FORCES
BELLEVILLE, ON
K8N 5W6
Many national newspapers as well as television stations have expressed great interest in covering the arrival off letters in Khandahar. This will likely be televised on the national News and I am sure that your students would be delighted to watch the program.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at:
Angeie *****
(204) ***-****
angeie@marriedtothecanadianforces.com
or visit Auriele’s website at www.cafeday.ca